Logging in East Gippsland is not commercially viable and cutting down native forests across the region is racking up losses of up to $5.5 million a year, internal government documents reveal. A leaked briefing by Victoria’s Department of Treasury and Finance to the former Napthine government says East Gippsland logging is being cross-subsidised by profitable harvesting in the state’s Central Highlands. The Highlands logging has come …
The revised Renewable Energy Target (RET) currently before Parliament would provide a market for otherwise unsaleable timber, according to a document from Victoria’s state-owned forestry business, VicForests, obtained by the ABC. Environment Minister Greg Hunt introduced the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill yesterday. The legislation locks in the bipartisan deal for a new, lower, 2020 …
Leaked business and corporate plans from Victoria’s state-owned forestry business, VicForests, reveal multi-million dollar taxpayer losses and logging operations in parts of the state that ‘are not commercial’. This is especially the case in East Gippsland, where weak demand for poor quality logs has made operations unprofitable over ‘many years’. The leaked ‘commercial in confidence’ …
Leaked 3 year business plans from VicForests reveal multi-million dollar taxpayer losses. East Gippsland is especially ‘not commercial’. It’s been going on for years. ABC Radio National revealed the leaked ‘commercial in confidence’ documents also shows VicForests is keen to use native forests to generate electricity under the Renewable Energy Target, or RET. Environment Minister …
The Victorian Agriculture Minister believes it is “entirely appropriate” that the Goongerah Environment Centre is facing the threat of prosecution for exposing what the Environment Minister admits as “extremely poor” logging practices by her own government. Goongerah Environment Centre, which was last week shortlisted for a United Nations Habitat Restoration and Biodiversity award, was notified …
In a case that redefines ‘shooting the mesenger’ the Victorian Government remains determined to punish a group that exposed its poor logging practices. Thom Mitchell reports. The Victorian Agriculture Minister believes it is “entirely appropriate” that the Goongerah Environment Centre is facing the threat of prosecution for exposing what the Environment Minister admits as “extremely …
1. If the senate allows the inclusion of ‘waste’ from native forest logging as a biomass fuel for biomass power in the RET, whole trees will be burnt for electricity in furnaces. The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) stated in the 2009 submission to the National Energy Policy Framework:‘wherever forests are managed under Commonwealth …
An environmental group illegally entered a forest to expose poor logging practices. Guess whose getting prosecuted? Thom Mitchell reports. With the investigation into the Goongerah Environment Centre now in its third week, it looks increasingly as though the Victorian government is shooting an inconvenient green messenger. The community environment centre, known as GECO for short, …
Groups like the Gippsland Environment Group and environmentalists like Ross Scott and health professionals like Dr. Jo McCubbin have been raising concerns about the mercury levels in fish in the Gippsland Lakes for many years. DELWP Media release A study to assess mercury levels in fish of the Gippsland Lakes will commence from tomorrow, followed …
VicForests has abandoned its sham attempt to gain a green tick for their logging practices under the International Forest Stewarship Council (FSC) label. It had a snowball’s hope in hell before but now the Federal Govt has decalred the Leadbeaters Possum critically endangered, it’s more like a snowflakes hope in hell.VicForests has said…”Following the listing …
